SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492015-03-31T14:54:08-06:00SparkFun Electronicsstevenvh17 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15stevenvh17urn:uuid:fa333640-b529-e2f2-34d6-69e3123bd5752015-02-14T07:58:07-07:00<p>SF, can we have a breakout board for the SHT21? Mucho, mucho cheaper than the SHT15!</p>stevenvh17 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15stevenvh17urn:uuid:c38355f2-24d7-a929-ef41-4bc6b582f97a2015-02-14T07:49:28-07:00<p>The sensor itself sells for USD 29, then this little board is too expensive. Apart from the SHT15 there are just three passive components which cost a cent each.</p>stevenvh17 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15stevenvh17urn:uuid:bd02ac66-6774-ed5b-fe72-f3deb54cc7152015-02-08T08:52:33-07:00<p>The reason the HopeRF part is cheaper is probably that it is less accurate.
BTW, while I like Hope&rsquo;s RF modules I don&rsquo;t like that Hope refuses to give prices on its site. That neither Digikey nor Mouser seem to carry the TH02 doesn&rsquo;t help either.
Do you know how much the TH02 is in ones?</p>Customer #453852 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Customer #453852urn:uuid:85942a3a-bccb-4dc4-7172-e9be4ffbc5082014-11-03T17:25:43-07:00<p>I have a few comments, in case you do a redesign.
1. Add bypass cap
2. It&rsquo;s crazy that you have pull-down resistors. To make it compatible with any kind of I2C you really want pull-ups. Or at least some options.
3. There&rsquo;s a lot of unused PCB there. Since PCB is hygroscopic (I think), it will cause humidity and temp readings to be retarded as the PCB responds to the ambient conditions. It would be much better to cut down the PCB in a style similar to a SHT75: put the device on a small &ldquo;island&rdquo; of PCB, isolated from the connector part of the board with a narrower &ldquo;neck&rdquo; of PCB.</p>Shadyman on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Shadymanurn:uuid:4e6d321b-f0c7-ddc3-19ec-fbfefd3438112014-10-16T16:30:13-06:00<p>And there&rsquo;s even a driver in Linux for this guy. &ldquo;&lt; > Sensiron humidity and temperature sensors. SHT15 and compat.&rdquo;</p>Customer #521601 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Customer #521601urn:uuid:a3edf969-643d-2d8f-26b2-3e3454c8d17f2014-02-17T00:23:24-07:00<p>I found a digital relative humidity and temperature sensor TH02 in http://www.hoperf.com/sensor/app/TH02.htm
with very lower price.</p>Customer #518296 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Customer #518296urn:uuid:87877cd8-e199-b971-751b-3fdfb48f04912014-02-07T11:35:12-07:00<p>I think the SHT15 comes pre-calibrated from the factory (calibration offsets in build in flash element) so it&rsquo;s got better accuracy out of the box.</p>vagyver on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15vagyverurn:uuid:4515482c-627e-fcbd-cf75-245d7968751c2014-01-18T11:44:43-07:00<p>I would like to recommend (suggest) a pcb redesign of this board so that it will include the two smalls hole that the SF1 filter require.
And a second thought is to (optional) include a RJ45 socket. In case someone wants to physical place inside a radiation shield, and if used with the USB weather board, then i can also suggest a RJ45 socket addition at the USB weather board, in order to connect to.</p>Johnno on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Johnnourn:uuid:e2b62cd8-c41f-f87c-6210-dc469a83bcda2013-09-03T11:50:51-06:00<p>Great product, you guys. On your next revision, would you please include on the PC board two small holes for mounting the SF1 filter cap? Thanks.</p>Cathy2 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Cathy2urn:uuid:d2b30a3d-0760-a7ac-c9a8-bb203038cd652013-07-09T16:37:05-06:00<p>sf price is cheaper than ebay for this part, good job boys.</p>Adhue587 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Adhue587urn:uuid:efc0a939-cc66-7539-7758-fdf1a5c8ce252013-03-27T23:14:17-06:00<p>You guys should make a breakout for the Si7005-B-GM1R from Silicon Labs. It seems like a solid temperature and humidity sensor with a filter to keep out dust/liquids at &frac14; the price of the SHT15.</p>DAG144 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15DAG144urn:uuid:73c946f5-8854-2afb-3b9b-25fa40c9401e2013-03-18T13:40:53-06:00<p>DIY replacement for sensor cap: I recently purchased the SHT15 breakout board and added it to my proMicro Barometer project. I had no trouble getting it working using the practicalarduino / SHT1x code from Github written by Jonathan Oxor (June 16, 2009). To protect the sensor, I wrapped a 6 mm strip of plastic from those very thin plastic bags used in the produce department. I just wrapped a single layer over the sensor and tied the strip behind the board. The sensor is still responsive when I breath on it so the plastic is not a complete moisture barrier but should help protect the sensor from dust.</p>Kinch on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Kinchurn:uuid:6e06d8ce-afc4-aaf3-5ffc-e91a1755ae162013-01-24T11:48:03-07:00<p>Please see my comment at the bottom of the page in response to Kilo&rsquo;s comment.</p>wankeye on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15wankeyeurn:uuid:852eeb87-1780-dca1-7cb0-c23a8835a93c2013-01-23T11:29:42-07:00<p>Thanks. No way I&rsquo;m buying something this expensive when SparkFun hasn&rsquo;t even bothered to notify folks about this, nor do the acclimatization for us!</p>UNTEngineer on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15UNTEngineerurn:uuid:d4b4ab2c-5cb0-bbfd-3c3b-ab3302ef6fa62012-08-23T22:47:02-06:00<p>Has this issue been addressed by Sparkfun since this post?</p>Koyaanisqatsi on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Koyaanisqatsiurn:uuid:b6e7e70c-6fb6-5b32-5e8c-3bcff89128182012-08-11T23:15:53-06:00<p>Can anyone tell me why the SHT15 sensor would be preferable over this one?
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10167</p>
<p>The 4X cost difference is not being explained well in the descriptions.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>Toni_K on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Toni_Kurn:uuid:cc37e446-3a8f-980f-f617-e4cf43083f6f2012-06-20T16:56:58-06:00<p>I know this is a delayed response, but we have started re-calibrating them in-house (seen Kinch&rsquo;s response below). If you are running into strange readings with this sensor however, it won&rsquo;t hurt anything to try re-calibrating it yourself.</p>JohnGalt on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15JohnGalturn:uuid:be424cad-c860-6764-b955-1a78ed723edc2012-05-12T12:23:15-06:00<p>Depends upon what you&rsquo;re interfacing to and your choice of hardware I guess but with a micro that already has native I2C it makes it so easy just to put a device such as this out on the bus and simply read real numbers that mean something.</p>Kinch on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Kinchurn:uuid:b29359c1-c149-8869-34b7-4764447d6c922012-04-26T10:32:45-06:00<p>As per jacobfb&rsquo;s initial comments and subsequent posts (much obliged by the way for those) the SHT15 Humidity Sensors on both the Breakout Board, SEN-08257, and on the SUB weatherboard V3, SEN-10586, or most specifically the polymer surrounding the IC needs to be re-hydrated after reflow. From page 3 of the datasheet:</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: After soldering the devices should be stored
at >75%RH for at least 12h to allow the polymer to rehydrate.
Otherwise the sensor may read an offset that
slowly disappears if exposed to ambient conditions.
Alternatively the re-hydration process may be performed at
ambient conditions (>40%RH) during more than 5 days.</p>
<p>And Page 4:</p>
<p>1.4 Reconditioning Procedure
As stated above extreme conditions or exposure to solvent
vapors may offset the sensor. The following reconditioning
procedure may bring the sensor back to calibration state:
Baking: 100 – 105°C at &lt; 5%RH for 10h
Re-Hydration: 20 – 30°C at ~ 75%RH for 12</p>
<p>To be honest we weren&rsquo;t initially aware of this procedure way back in 2010. I don&rsquo;t have any particularly poignant excuse either. It&rsquo;s possible we didn&rsquo;t get a detailed datasheet until after we started selling the sensor breakout, but regardless we didn&rsquo;t go back and check the datasheet. To be sure, that&rsquo;s our bad.</p>
<p>However, I can assure you that we are currently, and have been for some time now, re-hydrating the polymer around these ICs following the recommended reconditioning procedure. We gently hand clean each board with an alcohol solution, post reflow, then each board spends at least 12 hours in a humidity controlled environment. The boards are then tested, and sent off to be packaged in ESD sleeves as quickly as possible. Here in Colorado we are lucky to have a dry environment, which is good for most of our parts and boards. In this case our surroundings aren&rsquo;t to our benefit so we do our best to handle these boards, specifically these ICs, properly. We weren&rsquo;t aware of this issue until customers spoke up, so thanks for keeping us on our toes and keeping us honest. And very sorry for the delayed reply.</p>Kilo on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Kilourn:uuid:8518824e-526a-c64a-d2ca-917e1244bad42012-01-12T10:25:05-07:00<p>The datasheet says both sensor elements (RH% &amp; T) are impervious to water vapor or liquid immersion, other than affecting the sensor&rsquo;s readings for a time until things dry out. These do not like chemical vapors so beware.
I&rsquo;m using both SHT15 and SHT75&rsquo;s but 75&rsquo;s for better repeatability in humidity ambients below 10%. SF does not offer the 75 on a breakout and you will have to add a 3-5k external pullup to the dat line to make them accurate or they will give erroneous data if not terminated properly, and set the sample interval to 8 seconds or more to allow for best conversion resolution. The 11&rsquo;s and 15&rsquo;s require both a pull up and pull down resistor for best stability but all three are signal protocol compatible i.e. interchangeable.
I have about two dozen of these now monitoring various factory ATE system internals and environments at the UUT stations and these are perfect for the application because they bear traceable calibration from Sensirion, making them worth the extra expense for this app.
I have had no trouble with them reconditioning by themselves in ambient air but it may take several days or weeks to settle out depending on how SF handled them before final packaging.</p>rei_vilo on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15rei_vilourn:uuid:68c1ed36-d788-ec7d-9ce9-a735ffb634182011-11-30T13:21:13-07:00<p>Does Sparkfun consider a breakout-board for the SHT21 sensor, temperature + humidity, and fully I2C operated?</p>Customer #206403 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Customer #206403urn:uuid:d2059d37-88bf-e0fc-22ea-9d41427a08392011-10-08T21:09:15-06:00<p>the SHT sounds like such a hassle why not get the honeywell HH 4030, get your rig up and running and not worry about I2C or condensation damage. Does sparkfun carry the HH4031?</p>nagmier on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15nagmierurn:uuid:7e85ab59-b1af-f162-635e-bcd450c3138f2011-09-18T12:10:54-06:00<p>Has SFE started calibrating these after soldering as mentioned by jacobfb back in April 2010? or do I still need to calibrate these?</p>Customer #218475 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Customer #218475urn:uuid:0a320ea1-26db-bcc6-96bb-c66f98651ba72011-08-02T01:50:18-06:00<p>Hi all,<br/>
Last week I bought a Arduino Duemilanove board and a SHT 15 breakout from Sparkfun.<br/>
I use the practicalarduino / SHT1x code from Github written by Jonathan Oxor (June 16, 2009).<br/>
At my job (I work on a technical laboratory) I placed the SHT15 sensor together with another commercial<br/>
temperature / humidity sensor above a hermetic closed saturated sodium chloride solution.<br/>
The theoretical value of the humidity of the saturated sodium chloride solution at 20 °C is 75,5%.<br/>
I measure with the commercial temperature / humidity sensor above the saturated sodium chloride solution an temperature 21,2°C and 75,0% humidity.<br/>
With the SHT15 breakout I measure above the saturated sodium chloride solution an temperature 21,3°C and 47,5% humidity!<br/>
Before the measurements I conditioned the SHT15 breakout 20 hour with >75% humidity.<br/>
What happens?<br/>
Who can help me?<br/>
Jack<br/>
The Netherlands</p>Kilo on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Kilourn:uuid:0c8d6c64-a2f4-9678-7c7e-476e9d645dd12011-01-20T09:16:39-07:00<p>The specs for the sensor may say ~4 second response, but that is for the elements internal to the sensor alone.<br/>
Once the sensor is mounted to something like a breakout board inside a case, with leads attached, the assembly becomes an extension of the sensor, the effects of which manifest as thermal bulk with/without conductive effects that responds much slower than the sensor element alone.<br/>
Best metrology practices should be observed by allowing the sensor assembly to reach equilibration to ambient conditions for best precision of the measurement&hellip;as much as an hour depending on how much bulk is in the assembly, and how much uncertainty in the measurement is tolerable.<br/>
This is where you get to &lsquo;play&rsquo; with the module to empirically characterize your creation.<br/>
As with so many things in technology, there are caveats to using such devices. For example, if you are sensing rapidly changing conditions, having the sensor mounted to a large substrate (in effect a heatsink) and inside a case with no perforations to allow ambient to penetrate the sensor, you limit the accuracy and response of the sensor, possibly to the point of rendering it dubious.</p>Problem on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Problemurn:uuid:857d7f84-a62b-9830-c61e-80d07d022e072010-07-13T05:14:33-06:00<p>I bought one Humidity and Temperature Sensor - SHT15 and I used the CCS C Compiler (<a href="http://www.ccsinfo.com/" rel="nofollow" >http://www.ccsinfo.com/</a>) but I have several erros in the C code for example in the declaration #pragma origin 4, I got the error Invalid Pre-Processor directive can someone help me?</p>James16 on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15James16urn:uuid:b8745de7-e430-f8bf-d190-3087ab68549a2010-07-13T03:51:15-06:00<p>Hi. I just brought one of these, however after connecting it up and getting readings, I am a little disapointed with what I am seeing&hellip;<br/>
By &ldquo;Fast response time &lt; 4 sec&rdquo; - does that mean its less than 4 seconds from asking it the temp/humidity to it giving it to you, or is it &lt; 4 seconds to detect the current temp/humidty from changing location (ie inside to outside)&hellip; ?<br/>
I assumed it was &lt; 4 seconds to give you an accurate temperature after changing location&hellip; however when I took it from our 23 degree living room, to outside which is about 4 degrees with a thermometer I have, it took more than 5 minutes for the temperature to begin reading in the right range&hellip; however that said, the temp sensor didnt show less than 10 degrees. I am a little unsure what is going wrong exactly.<br/>
When you blow on the sensor, the humidity changes quite prompty, however the temperature just takes forever to change. Why is this?<br/>
I have this plugged into an Arduino and am using the SHT15 library which is available on the arduino website. It worked first time, however its just incredibly slow and it doesnt seem accurate.<br/>
Do I have a faulty product or am I doing something silly?<br/>
James</p>jacobfb on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15jacobfburn:uuid:f0a7e98a-d003-27f9-5cb7-d630cd1d947a2010-04-18T12:49:07-06:00<p>The sensor soldered on the breakout board needs to be reconditioned for accurate readings. From the SHT15 datasheet:</p>
<p>IMPORTANT: After soldering the devices should be stored at >75%RH for at least 12h to allow the polymer to re-hydrate. Otherwise the sensor may read an offset that slowly disappears if exposed to ambient conditions.</p>
<p>I did this by leaving my SHT15 in a ziploc bag with a cigar humidifier rated at rh 84%. You could also us a baggy with a small cup of damp salt. Before reconditioning the SHT15&rsquo;s readings were -7% what they should be. Now it&rsquo;s perfect. This is something I wish Sparkfun would do in house.</p>tz on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15tzurn:uuid:54fbef52-8b67-fb5a-7aaf-c03bcc2522672009-12-20T18:50:13-07:00<p>This is NOT I2C, but 80% of it. Mainly the sensor pulls down SDA to indicate conversion complete. An existing bitbang (or something like the USI assist on the ATtinyx5) can be easily adapted to talk to this.</p>Jimby on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Jimbyurn:uuid:8aef44db-4cd1-0d4f-1c5b-0a57b2a83cc42009-12-18T16:42:04-07:00<p>Scuse my ignorance but I&rsquo;m only just starting to play around with I2C but on this board R1 goes to VCC and R2 goes to GND.<br/>
I thought that both resistores on I2C were pull-up, wired to VCC. Does anyone know the reason for it on this board.</p>JerryG on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15JerryGurn:uuid:1213502e-435a-60c9-ff1d-f53f3b40b8b12009-09-13T21:24:11-06:00<p>Sparkfun may want to consider changing the 10K pull-up resistor on the data line to something like 4.7K or 2.2K instead.<br/>
The current 10K pull-ups cause quite a bit of slew on the data line and limit speed. I&rsquo;d prefer the trade-off of added current draw when transmitting on the bus over the lower data rate possible with higher value pull-ups.</p>BT on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15BTurn:uuid:ab1ad114-1c89-1143-b43d-173415e2cdac2009-08-18T12:23:21-06:00<p>It&rsquo;d be nice to have an updated set of pdf&rsquo;s for this part. Also a dimensional drawing showing hole placement.</p>Silverman on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Silvermanurn:uuid:f3da7605-f3e0-85d9-1d4d-6ba555992c1e2009-07-21T10:29:53-06:00<p>The boards that are shipping now don&rsquo;t match the photo or the schematic. They&rsquo;re red instead of green, which is awesome, but the resistors marked &ldquo;not populated&rdquo; are now populated. I had a frustrating time figuring out that the pull-down resistor on SCK was sinking enough of my clock that the sensor itself was ignoring it.<br/>
So test the board in your circuit before you install it in a way that blocks those resistors from being removed.<br/>
Also, I recommend Mouser 651-1725672 as a really tidy connector that solders directly onto this board. It dwarfs the sensor, but if you&rsquo;re running a cable to the sensor mounted inside an enclosure, it&rsquo;s nice to have screw terminals.</p>Justin Hammond on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15Justin Hammondurn:uuid:781fee1c-2171-1692-1b0c-3fc43905e4ac2009-01-27T22:01:22-07:00<p>Everyone should take note, even though its advertised as a 2 wire, or i2c interface, its not 100% compatible&hellip; but once you work around the differences, its a dream to work with</p>reza on SEN-08257 - SparkFun Humidity and Temperature Sensor Breakout - SHT15rezaurn:uuid:11cea166-b3e6-9c22-f640-6db77d73b4f12007-02-28T04:58:13-07:00<p>Or, get the most sensitive sensor they make - ST75 I think - which has leads metric spaced leads (1.27mm) already attached for $32ish a pop from newark. Just got 10 myself for a discount plus used some 10% off coupon code.<br/>
The thing works great, though the temp reading takes longer than the humidity - and I really dont know what I need 14 bits of precision for something that&rsquo;s only +/- 1.8% accurate.<br/>
They also give you a non-linear curve fit equation and another one that does temperature compensation for humidity. Very sensitive - i can blow on it from 5 feet away and it notices.</p>